Health and Fitness

A lot of research and study has been conducted to determine as to what makes some people hold on to their weight despite all their efforts against it and what makes some people keep their weight off despite all their efforts to gain some weight. In this article, we will discuss some of the reasons for the same. According to a recent research, easy weight gain or easy weight loss seem to be driven by hereditary factors. The exact gene that seems to be responsible for some people not being able to keep their weight off and for some people being able to keep their weight off, is attributed to the presence or absence of the FTO gene in a person.

According to this study, when experiments were conducted on rodents, mice to be precise (because they are mammals like humans and have very analogous anatomy and body processes to that of humans), it was found that mice which possessed the FTO genes, even if subjected to lot of activity seemed to retain their body weight, whereas mice that lacked the FTO gene, even when subjected to heavy eating, rest and inactivity seemed to stay thin and not gain weight. This suggests that the presence of the FTO gene causes mice to hold on to their body weight no matter how much they were made to run, while the absence of the functioning gene ensured accelerated hindrance free burning of energy, despite physical inactivity.